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Deutsche Telekom to visit Softbank

Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images John Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US. Talks between Sprint and T-Mobile for a possible merger continue despite differences on key issues, sources told CNBC. Last week, reports surfaced that SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate that controls Sprint, was planning to end …

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Making ‘Jumanji’ With Robin Williams: An Oral History

The filmmakers assembled the rest of the cast, including Jonathan Hyde, who played dual roles as young Alan’s aloof father and a hunter who terrorizes the players. JONATHAN HYDE It was a strange shoot. We were in Vancouver through the winter. It’s a wet, cold city. For five months, that …

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Here are five reasons Apple will continue to continue to climb

Carl Court | Getty Images A customer poses with an iPhone X after being the first to buy one upon its release in the U.K, on November 3, 2017 in London. As Apple shares soared to a new record after stellar earnings, Citigroup sees five more reasons why it believes …

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One of the biggest beneficiaries to GOP’s tax reform could be Apple

Getty Images A member of staff photographs a customer as he checks the new iPhone X upon its U.K release in the Apple store, on November 3, 2017 in London, England. One of the biggest beneficiaries under the Republican tax reform plan will be Apple, according to one Wall Street …

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Trump’s unusual approach to selecting a Fed chief

Getty Images | CNBC Kevin Warsh, former governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve board and Jerome Powell, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Jerome Powell’s nomination to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve capped weeks — months, really — of speculation and a selection process that now seems …

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George Clooney’s Awkward White Guilt in ‘Suburbicon’

Nice try. We’re just in hoary old Hollywood, where showing a problem tends to be confused with addressing it. All we know about the family across the way — they’re the Mayerses — is that they’re new homeowners and that they’re black. And boy, are they restrained. When racists scream …

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Hurricane-damaged jobs number won’t sway the Fed from rate hike

Richard Clement | Reuters Construction workers move materials at a work site for a new condominium and retail complex in Portland, Oregon. The unemployment rate in October fell to 4.1 percent, a 17-year low, from 4.2 percent, but economists point to a decline in the participation rate of 0.4 to …

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Why we had to stagger iPhone X and iPhone 8 launch

Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the new iPhone X during a media event at Apple’s new headquarters in Cupertino, California on September 12, 2017. The dual September unveiling of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, but staggered release dates, was borne out …

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First Wall Street strategist to embrace bitcoin and call for rally is now ‘cautious’

The only major Wall Street strategist with an official price forecast for bitcoin turned “cautious” as the digital currency soared above $7,000 to record highs. We are “cautious short-term on bitcoin,” Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said in a Thursday report. He said bitcoin has gained far more than fundamentals warrant …

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The Single Mom’s Guide to Sex, Love and Basketball

“SMILF” revives the tradition of unruly antiheroines that was Showtime’s signature brand under the channel’s former president of entertainment, Robert Greenblatt. Series like “Weeds,” “Nurse Jackie,” “United States of Tara” and “The Big C” — all created by female showrunners — flaunted characters who kicked against the constraints of conventional …

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